Brandi's Consulting

I'm waiting for the right time. I'm waiting for the money. I'm waiting to feel better. I'm waiting until my kids are older. I'm waiting...

Each year I have a word that I adopt as a word of the year. Two years ago, in 2019, my word was courage. In 2020, well before the...

We said goodbye to Boo Boo today.

I struggle today... Brandi shares her thoughts on her struggles today during this Covid-19 time.

My word for 2019 was courage.

"You deserve all the credit." I am arguing this point though because he is putting in time outside of the 30 minutes we have together every

Controversial issues are seldom black and white.

My son just blurted out, "Tori, it's going to take us 120 minutes to get to Ottumwa." He used his math skills to figure out that 2 hours...

We practiced breathing.

Two of the activities I love the most in life are colliding in documenting an adult's journey from non-swimmer to swimmer: writing and...

Almost anywhere you look on this blog, you can either find references to water or books. The two things I am most passionate about -...

It's nearly the end of the first quarter of 2019. It's a month later than I wanted to share my gratitude for a truly fabulous start to...

Eventually I will finish my blog post and tell you all about my wonderful February. (For it being a month that I generally...

Courage--it comes from the Latin word--Cor. Cor means "of the heart." Although the origin of the word is heart, over the years it has...

It's February. That means that when there's a bajillion snow days, I make Valentine's with my kids. My 8 year old, second grader, like...

There was an amazing attribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. last at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cedar Rapids. I...